lost 3 members of family during last 10 years to cancer. In one case it was caught at early stage and resulted in 9 years of life with last year being pretty hard. Earlier surgery and treatments were definitely worth it (i mean "worth" in general not in financial sense). In 2 other cases, late detection, despite pretty aggressive surgery and treatments - 2 years and 0.5 year with things going downhill pretty fast at the speed that one can't just stop and rethink the whole thing. In the last case i was directly responsible for the aggressiveness of approach and given the chance i hope i'd not do it this way again (though at the start it was "promised" more like 3-5 years instead of actual 0.5 years - in addition to cancer there are also very grave/deadly complications possible, including the ones from treatments and overall stress on the body by the illness, that one need to watch for very carefully). In the former case the first year wasn't that bad so i'd say it was worth it, problem is that it is very hard to stop at the right time where more treatments would only decrease quality of life.
lost 3 members of family during last 10 years to cancer. In one case it was caught at early stage and resulted in 9 years of life with last year being pretty hard. Earlier surgery and treatments were definitely worth it (i mean "worth" in general not in financial sense). In 2 other cases, late detection, despite pretty aggressive surgery and treatments - 2 years and 0.5 year with things going downhill pretty fast at the speed that one can't just stop and rethink the whole thing. In the last case i was directly responsible for the aggressiveness of approach and given the chance i hope i'd not do it this way again (though at the start it was "promised" more like 3-5 years instead of actual 0.5 years - in addition to cancer there are also very grave/deadly complications possible, including the ones from treatments and overall stress on the body by the illness, that one need to watch for very carefully). In the former case the first year wasn't that bad so i'd say it was worth it, problem is that it is very hard to stop at the right time where more treatments would only decrease quality of life.